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The Dip is a Seattle-based Rhythm and Blues band that is known for its poignant songwriting, detailed arrangements, and vintage sound. Featuring a three-piece horn section, the groups music harkens back to earlier soul and funk influences while hinting at the jazz foundations that brought the bands members together. Along with singer and guitarist Tom Eddy, bassist MarkHunter and drummer Jarred Katz are equally at home in a tight-pocketed groove as they are spacious free-improvisation. Trumpet player Brennan Carter joined by saxophonists Evan Smith and Levi Gillis serve as the bands melodic counterpoint, playing off Eddys vocals to create adistinct sonic character that has drawn in millions of listeners to date.Love Direction, the follow-up to 2022s Sticking With It (which landed at #1 on the Billboard Current Rs fourth full-length studio album and second for Dualtone Records, due out 7/12/24. This new record is the sound of the band taking their next step forward. The interplay of old and new is on full display throughout the album; and, the group augments their classic sound with an expanded instrumentation throughout. Eddy says of the albums inspiration: As you get further along in a relationship, sometimes you lose your way. The things that came easily in the beginning get hard. The love is still there, its just that people and life are complicated. Sometimes you dont have the tools in the toolbox to figure out what you need to do to support the other person, so you have to get help and ask for directions.Still, despite the title, this latest record isnt a collection of straightforward love songs, but an investigation into the different angles and challenges that relationships can bring. Expanding on the albums theme, Eddy further notes These arent Love Songs in the most obvious sense. They deal with the middle stages, the hinterlands of love and life together - figuring someone out and what they need, learning how to communicate, and examining your own faults. We set out to write music that felt more grown, a little wiser. The songs that emerged all pointed in the Love Direction.Their last album cycle saw the band headline and sell-out shows at iconic venues across the country. They have also had the opportunity to support new friends like Lake Street Dive and The Black Pumas, while also appearing at major festivals including Bonnaroo and Outside Lands. No strangers to the road, this new album represents a reflection on the bands touring gravitas as well as the promise of a new destination appearing on the horizon. Directions now in hand, The Dip is looking forward to furthering this exploration into all matters of the heart by bringing this expansive and detailed new recording to life in their next travels together.
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